September 15, 2022 • 31 mins
Original Air Date: May 06, 1954
Host: Andrew Rhynes
Show: The Six Shooter
Phone: (707) 98 OTRDW (6-8739)
Stars:
• James Stewart (Britt Ponset)
Special Guests:
• Lillian Buyeff
• Bill Johnstone
• Lou Merrill
• Harry "Killer" Bartell
Writer:
• Frank Burt
Producer:
• Jack Johnstone
Music:
• Basil Adlam
Exit music from: Roundup on the Prairie by Aaron Kenny https://bit.ly/3kTj0kK
Host: Andrew Rhynes
Show: The Six Shooter
Phone: (707) 98 OTRDW (6-8739)
Stars:
• James Stewart (Britt Ponset)
Special Guests:
• Lillian Buyeff
• Bill Johnstone
• Lou Merrill
• Harry "Killer" Bartell
Writer:
• Frank Burt
Producer:
• Jack Johnstone
Music:
• Basil Adlam
Exit music from: Roundup on the Prairie by Aaron Kenny https://bit.ly/3kTj0kK
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Welcome to the old time radio Westerns. I'm your host, Andrea Reins,
and let's get into this episode.This episode is going to be the six
Shooter original Arne is Me six,nineteen fifty four and the title is an
A Northquest. Hope you enjoying again. Thanks for listening. In a moment
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you will hear James Stewart as thesix Shooter. Just one of the many
fine programs brought to you each weekon NBC. Tomorrow Night, there's top
comedy entertainment with The Bob Hope Show, The Phil Harris Alis Face Show,
and Can You Top This with SenatorFord. Bob Hope delivers rapid fire comedy
routines, while Phil Harris and AliceBade bring both mirth and music. It's
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a great Friday night lineup of comedyprograms, all of them heard only on
NBC. James Stewart as the sixShooter. The man in the saddle is
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angular and long legged. His skinis sun dyed brown. The gun in
his holster is gray steel and rainbowmother of pearl, Its handle unmarked.
People call them bull the six Shooter. The NBC Radio Network presents James Stewart
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as the six Shooter, the transcribedseries of radio dramas based on the life
of Brit Punson, the Texas plainsmanwho wandered through the Western territories, leaving
behind a trail of still remembered legends. It was Friday morning when I got
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the smoke clause in my first triptown about three months Dad Foster needed a
little extra money for feed, sohe asked me to drive about a dozen
of his heifers and sell him onside of his auction while I turned the
cattle over to Brad McClane, hewas the auctionaire. And then things about
noontime, I wandered into wenday NightsCafe, Wendy's Foods Real good to his
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cornbeaten cabbage, boiled potatoes, ricepudding for dessert, real tasty. There
was only one drawback to eating there, Wendy and then Edward. He's Marshall
Albred. But I guess you knewthat, didn't you. Well, as
a matter of fact, I didn't. Oh sure, sure he was elated.
Lasterday, one hundred and two voteswas cast. One hundred and two.
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Well, that's the biggest election we'veever had in this town, the
biggest in this part of the state, floord. I know, yes,
well, unless you count fort Lyonsover there. They eat very particular who
they let vote. Why. Ihear tell it was a drummer passing through
the town last election day and theyjust drug him right off to the pools.
Don't sorry, Yeah, I'll justbet you if there was to be
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an honest census, we'd show upwith a good twenty more people in fort
Lyons, very share, very shallWow, I sure wasn't fine, Little
Willy wonder, where do you thinkyou're going to bridge? You ain't let
me tell you about Marshall Burke findingSeth Quincy's body. Huh, Well,
what did you think I was leadingup to? Well? I then exactly
now, yeah, but we couldgo last Monday, that's when it happened.
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Oh and the reason I remember soplain is wrong. About ten o'clock
in the morning, it started tothunder, and I said to Missus Coombs.
I run into a coming down mainstreet. I said, Missus Coombs
and said, don't let that thunderfool you. It ain't gonna rain the
first week in September. No,sir, I lived around here for seventeen
years, and it ain't never rainedafter the twenty fifth August, That's what
I said. Yeah, well,now what about nonse Quincy? What I
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was coming to that, brit Can'tyou give a body a minute? Oh
sure? Oh yes, Well hewas lying on the floor of his party
when Marshall Burt come in and theysee the police. Looked like he put
up quite a fight too. Brokenfurniture and glass where all over the place
and slugging his chance. That's whatkilled him. A shooting must have been
around eleven o'clock that morning's yeah,at leastwise that's when missus Henderson said she
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heard what sounded like a shot.You know that Henderson's Britt lived right over
them the road there, just downthe road a bit from Seth the Quincy's
ranch. Yeah, clied Henderson.He's that short red haired fellow who marries
Haarah Watkins. Ye, I said, I know him, Wenday. There's
no need to take my head off. I'm just trying to give you the
fact. I'm sorry, you goahead, give me the fact. Well,
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I see where was I? Yes, the trouble somebody interrupts you and
you'll lose your whole frame of thorder. Oh yeah, yeah about Seth Quincy.
Well, I guess that's order isto tell a cry. It was
last Monday, the trial. Sure, Pete Calgrin, the fellow that killed
him. Pete Kelgrin, what's thematter with you, britt Ain't you listening
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to me? Why? Well?You know you kind of neglected to mention
Pete Calgrin before Wenday, You knowI did? Yes, Oh well,
there wasn't any doubt but that hewas guilty. When Marshall Burke arrested him.
Kilgrin still had the four hundred dollarsin his pocket. Four hundred dollars
the money he stole from Seth.Oh, that's funny. Pete Calgrin never
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struck me as a type of Iguess you just never can tell about people,
can you. Well, I didn'tknow you was a friend of Pete's
bread. Well, we weren't exactlyfriends, but we've met up a couple
of times. He always seemed likea nice young follow me or he even
admitted Robin Saith. Of course,he says that when he come in,
Seth was already dead and the strongbox was just sitting right there, really
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inviting me. He's you must thinkwe're a bunch of Ignoramas is expecting us
to believe it. You're like that, Well, I suppose it could be
true. You didn't see it thatway. Hanging his schedule for next Monday,
but hanging well, right, andI owe your quarter? Huh?
And I just a minute, huh, get you a change? Well,
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I'll be dog gone. She's stillthere, that girl in front of the
depot. I've been standing there sincenine am this morning. Come in on
the express from Fort Lyon. Oh, I guess she's waiting for somebody to
meet her. I ain't heard ofnobody expecting visitors, and I usually get
window a thing like that, Iimagine you do. Yeah, well,
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here's your change. But thanks alot, no mention. Huh. I'll
be saying you're going to be intown for a while, ain't you.
No, No, I'm having backto fosh Rash tomorrow. Oh that's a
shame, you'll miss the hanging mWell, I reckon I can do with
thar song. I couldn't help noticethe girl waiting on the station platform.
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He's young, not moreing plenty orso pretty too. The straw colored hair
that was sort of fixed up inbraids, across the top of her head.
Real pretty, and it sure lookedlike she intended to stay around Smoke
Falls for a spell at least whyshe had plenty of lugg each weather,
two great big canvas suitcases and awicker basket packed all the flown. I
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started to cross over toward her,and she gave him turn. She was
frowning, kind of anxious, likeshe seemed to be studying me, as
if she was trying to make upher mind about something. Excuse me for
bothering your mess, but is thereanything I can do for you? You
come to meet you mister er Ohno, oh yeah, yeah, I
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seen you could not be him.He's shorter, failure, he's semi pictures.
He's definitely looking man. Are youthen you were waiting for somebody?
Sure? Sure? Well maybe ifyou told me who it is, I
maybe I'd be able to find afire. He did man, it come
to marry Oh say you write laterover to a year now. He have
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family in the same part of Swedenwhere I live. A b Swedish mystery.
Yes, yes, I sort offigured you might be. Then he
sent me money. He come toAmerica. I think he must be a
rich feller, send me so muchmoney two hundred dollars. Mm, yeah,
that's good. Some money or heturned me saved my sister in Wisconsin,
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tell you makes some more. Theysee there's six months over, but
they get tired of waiting. Istill have fifty dollars left, so I
take train a west. Oh well, maybe he didn't know you were getting
into day. Maybe that's why he'snot here yet. They write him later
from Wisconsin. My sister help mehim. That's a good at English language.
Oh you're done, all right,done? Fine, he must be
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busy working, that is by hislead. Okay, come ahead, and
it worry. Wow. What doyou say, mister? You're a friend
of his? Well, I don'tknow. I think you didn't tell me
his name. Oh I'm a veryfoolish person, and it used my brains.
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Edi is a Peter Peter. Yeah, Peter Calvin. You had heard
of him? Why? Yeah,yeah, I've heard of him. You
did not see him anywhere today?No? No, I haven't seen him.
But thank you used the same youngmister. I didn't tell you my
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name either. It's pons It butpons I'm very pleased to meet you,
mister pans Anna NuRD Oh how doyou do, Anna? Why you look
at me like that? Mister?Well, something is the mat. Yeah,
I'm afraid there is Peter. Heis not sick. No, no
than that. You said you'd cometo America to marry Pete. Yeah,
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but you don't know him very well? Do you? Over two years?
We write later? Oh? Ohyes, but I mean can you drink?
I candid love a man I nevermeet. No, no, not
necessarily. No. Peter used thesame as if you meet a hundred times.
They tell each other everything in letters. Maybe so, but yeah,
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I see I feel like it didyou thing? Oh you tell yourself.
I only marry Peter because you sendme so much money, because he is
such a rich fan. No,no, no, of course not.
I tell you truth, mister,and marry him because I love him.
I never see him, but Ilove him. There's no other reason.
Uh huh, yeah of course anuh so I why don't come over to
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the cafe and have a cup ofcoffee. It's very kind of you,
but it must be him and Peterson. Well, I'm afraid Peter isn't coming.
I didn't understand. No, I'mawful sorry that tell you about this
but well he's in jail, Jane. Yeah, you mean police raised him.
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Well, it was the Marshal andwas about the same thing. What
did Peter do? Well? Ohsure, sure, and no he's scared
to meet me, so he hastoo much to drink. He Oh no,
it's it's a lot more serious thanthat, damn mister. Well,
folks say that he killed a manlast week. He killed the man.
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Sure looks that way. No,it couldn't not be. He's fine,
good Fellah. That's why I guessyou're bound to think that, Anna,
But they make big mistake. Ikilled him, so they admit Peter go
where is Jane? No, no, no, I wouldn't do mister.
Where is je Well, it's justaround the corner there, But I don't
think here here. Let me giveyou a hand off. You can manage.
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He can carry suitcase ever confirmed,I'm playing this strong. No,
listen, Anna, I'm afraid themarsh mister you come to bedding you Oh
sure, sure, I'm in mud. Well, I didn't see. Work
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was up to me to give Annaall the details about the hanging Monday and
everything. She'd find out soon enough. Sure was a tough break though,
after coming all this distance and marrya man she'd never seen. Well.
Strolled around town for an hour orso, and then I headed over to
George Billings house, where I'd leftmy things and I was planning to spend
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the night with George and his wifeEllen. They offered me to use the
spare room. M nobody home.Well, I picked up the fire part
in the top courts up and Ifound the key onders. There's a note
from Ella too said for me gwinside make himself comfortable. There was a
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copy of the Smoke Falls Weekly.Does that on the hall table and skimmed
through it for a couple of minutes. The main article was about the Quincy
shooting. He killed him? Thetrial? Oh they did? May find
you here? He must, it'simportant. Yeah, come in, Anna,
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thank you very much. So won'tyou sit? Do he would rather
stand? You're too nervous if yousee it, mister Bunton, Yeah,
Pop, he's wrong with Marsha Burke. Oh not as far as I know.
He says Peter must be hanged.Yeah, I know it is not
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possible. They would not hang aman who is not guilty. Well,
Anna, maybe Peter is guilly.No, he is not the Marshall.
Let me talk to Peter. Iask him if he does this awful thing.
He tells me no, Well,Anna, it is no lie.
I can tell a man who lies. It is the truth. What Peter
says. Well, he is afine failure, better even than ah my
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sister Rowne Mayer should not expect toomuch. He would be disappointed. But
Peter, he is good and kindand handsome. Oh he's a nice looking
boy, all right, no doubtabout that. And he did not kill
any man. He could not bethe one. Well, he's admitted steal
and South Quincy's money. That iswhy he takes it so we can get
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married. They're very wrong to steal, and he must be punished for it.
Well, if he was well onthe steal deal is not to kill,
that is by the hanging. Yeah, that's right. Then you must
keep them from it. M Yeah. I tell Peter that we meet that
you are very nice to me.He says, you be a famous person
with the funny name, ma'am sickshooter. Oh yes, he says,
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you will prove he is not guilty. You will talk to Marshall for him.
Oh, well, I don't seewhat talking to Marshall Burke would do.
Please, mister parnsaid, I tellyou something now before I say,
I come to marry Peter because I'min love it him, because of letters,
what he writes, and maybe andit speak the truth. Maybe I
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used going to come to America.I think I did no other chance,
but now it is a truth andmeet him and they talk to him,
and I am in love. Ilove him very much. You must believe
me, mister Parsick. Sure,Anna, Sure, I believe you can
you will talk to Marshall. Yeah, well, all right, all right,
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I'll talk to her. You arelistening to The six Shooter starring Jane
Stewart as Britt puntsit the Texas cowpolk who's name has become legend throughout the
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West now at two of the storyand a Nordquist. When I left down
at the hotel, I went overto seeing that Burke. His office was
in the front part of the jailwhere they we're keeping Pete. Kilgrin Nad
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had only been marshal for a fewmonths, but he'd had a couple of
years deputy experience, so he knewthe job and he was sort of a
man that usually made a good marshalor two. He's quiet, not looking
for trouble, but take care ofit when the time came. I sure
felt terrible, brit when she camein here and told me who she was
and what she wanted. Yeah,I let her talk to Childrin sigured it
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was at least I could do.This seemed to make things worse though he
convinced her that he was innocent andI was out to get him. Oh
well, no, nobody's gonna bleedthat. Ned that girl might believe it.
Yes, I wouldn't blame her ifshe did that. Children's a pretty
smooth tucker. Yeah, ned yea. I that there couldn't be any doubt
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about it, could there? Imean, as I understand it, Pete
says that Quincy was already dead whenhe got there. I was sure he
did, and that he took themoney because so it was just a darned
tempt him. I don't stand thereason that somebody murders sat and then go
off without breaking into a strong box. Now, does it, brit No?
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No, I guess it doesn't.Besides, Sarah Henderson seemed Pete riding
away from says iusand not five minutesafter Sure to shut d You rest him
the same day, and I cameinto town right after I found Sessed body.
Sarah had send for me. Shehad a feeling something was wrong.
Calvin was at Bud Winkler's place,That's where found him. He still have
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a gun on him. No,he claimed he didn't known the forty five.
That's what the slugg and says.Chess was forty five. We see.
Of course Pete had plenty of timeto get rid of the gun,
and there are plenty places between CessRanch and town where he could have ditched
it. Wow, that's true enough. Anybody ever remember seeing Pete with a
forty five? Nothing I knew ofNo, Wait a minute, but you
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ain't taking pete side in this thing, right, Well, I'm not taking
anybody's side, and Nat, I'mjust curious. That's all. This was
a cold blooded killing. You're goingout to Sess Place, You'll see.
He was an old man, buthe's sure put up a darn good fight
for his life, and from thelooks of things, he went on fighting
after he was shot. You know, I just might take you up on
that invitation there about going out toSess place. See you later. Oh,
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it was gotten on toward dusk whenI reached Seth Quincy's ranch. Who
whoa? I walked up the frontsteps and tried at the door. It
wasn't locked. Seth had lived alone. That looked like anybody then just straighten
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things up since the murder so there. Sure it had been a wheal of
a fight in the parlor up abroken chair and some stains on the sofa,
and pieces of a lamp that hadbeen smashed against the fireplace. Strong
box didn't seemed to be there.I figured they probably needed that for the
evidence. Well. I poked aroundfor about half an hour, and then
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I headed back to town. Themoon was starting to come up as we
hit a band in the trail andthe dog gunes. Thing happened. A
scar was usually as sure footage ofthe mountain goat, and not a bit
skitty she either. But when abat came winging out of some cotton woods,
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I darned your sail white out ofthe satellite. The sam Hill has
gone. Wall scar come on now? And that's when I saw it buried
under a pot of leaves and alittle gully. The first thing that cut
my eye was the moonlight glinting offa piece of metal. Easy, easy,
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scark easy because it could have beenalmost anything, a broken spur or
part of a farm tool, anything. But even before I pulled it out
from underneath the leaves and the dirt, I knew it was a gun.
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Yeah, who was there? It'smade Bret Ponson you the minute I think
you never came, mister parts.Could I get so, Gary? Well,
I'm sorry it took me so long. It doesn't matter now that you're
here. You talked to Marshall Burke. Yeah, yeah, I talked to
him. And you're telling Peter didnot kill this man. You're telling Peter
is not guilty, Nonna. Icouldn't tell him that. How do you
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see Peter is guilly. I foundthis gun gun he used to kill Seth
Quincy, was hidden in the galleyabout a mile from the farmhouse. It
didn't have begieve you. I gaveit to Marshall Burke. You can see
it for yourself. You want togo over there. Pete's initials right on
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the handle. Only one bullet hadbeen fired. It's the right gun.
There's no doubt. What goodn beAnna, I listen to me. The
only reason I'm telling you this iswell, after Monday, there won't be
anything you can do about Peter.It'll be better if you just forget him.
Heaven not forget you. Oh,it won't be easy, I know
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that. But as long as youknow he's guilty, as long as there
isn't any doubt in your mind,well, maybe it's for the best that
you found out before. Well,you try to tell me, lie,
Annah, this is the truth.You say. You will show me a
gun. You say it belongs toPeter well Es. Peter say, well,
of course he denies it to ah I guess there's nothing more I
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can do about it. You lieto me, you and Marshall. You
try to make me think that whenI love it the criminal. Do not
understand what country they talk about?American? They say, is this country
in the world? But this islied too, very justice, freish freedom.
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They hang a man for he doesnot do no an It's a terrible,
terrible country. Maybe shall never comehere, Maybe shall never leave me
home. They have no friend,no husband, may be alone in country
today. Hate. Oh, I'mI'm sorry. And if there's any way
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I can help you, if ifyou need some money, he runs no
here from American Wow. Oh goodnight, Anna. The light was still
on in the Marshall's office, soI stopped off, and I asked that
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if I could go and have alittle talk with Pete. He didn't seem
to think of doing much good,and to tell you the truth, I
didn't think so either, but Icouldn't see it do any harm. Try.
Pete was a tall, stringy man, about twenty five or so,
toeheaded with the yellow mustache, kindof a pointed chin. All right,
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Britta, leave here, you wantnot just give me? You? Nice
man? Sharing popular today, ain'tI? Britt? I guess you might
call it that, Pete. Well, but I thought maybe by now you'd
feel like coming out with the truth. Told you the truth before. I've
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never seen that gun in my wholelife. I ain't the only man with
those initials. M I Z.What's the difference if I'm gonna be hung
anyway? Well, the difference is, Anna, Anna. She believes you,
Pete. She believes you're innocent,and as long as you go on
saying so, she's going to keepon believing it even after. It's kind
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of nice to have somebody believe inyour brit nobody else does. Now,
Pete, you weren't railroad, andyou had a fair judge and a fair
trial. But Anna doesn't realize that. She's young, she's upset, and
she's in a strange country. Shewanted to come here pretty bad. I
had a lot of dreams about thiscountry and knowledge I don't those dreams returning
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sour. It's a good thing shewoke up. Well, I just don't
happen to agree with you on that. I think this is a pretty good
place to live. But Anna won'tfind that out, not if she goes
on feeling this way. Well,what do you expect me to do?
Confess to murdering seth Quincy just sosAnna can appreciate the good old USA?
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You ask me, this country ain'tso hot anyway. Well, there are
a lot of folks who put uppretty good argument about that. Your own
father, you're just wasting your breath. Yeah, yeah, I guess any
man who kills sequency and cold bloodthe way it wasn't cold blood. I
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didn't even you want, Pete,all right, But I ain't telling you
this because of I don't even knowwhy I'm telling you. I needed money,
Branna, so we could get married. I wanted to make a good
showing, like I told him theletters I wrote it. Everybody said Seth
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had plenty of cash, that hewouldn't put none of it in the bank
because he'd had a fight with misterPutnam and he kept it all in that
strong boxing. I thought he'd goneto town. I never figured he'd come
back and catch me. While Iwas robbing him. I tried to hold
him off with my gun, buthe just kept coming. I had the
fire even then. He didn't stop, not until Well, Pete, what
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we want now? I want youto tell this to Anna. You can
tell her. I'm afraid that wouldn'tdo any good. He's real pretty anchie.
I never figured on her being surprity. She was surprised. Yeah,
I've been writing her for the lasttwo years. It's pause the idea he
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knew her ken back in Sweden.Wouldn't any girl around here that, at
least Wade Night I was interested in. Huh, Well, Pete, I'll
tell her, but it wasn't coldblood bread, not the way you think.
Yeah, Na, nad, I'mall done. Air Wow. Pete
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finally ex lame things to Anna,and I guess she saw what had happened
in kind of a different light.Mane. Anyway, she stayed on and
smoked falls And last time I wasthrough there, she was working over in
Wendy Night's cafe. She changed somethingtoo, was she wore her hair where
she dressed. But she was stilljust pretty the picture of that Georgia.
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And you know something Wendy had changed. He wasn't talking so much. A
folk said that that was Anne's doing, that she'd asked him to simmer down.
A back was her. If shewas able to get Wendy to stop
talking, even for a couple ofminutes, if she had that much influence
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on him, well, you neverknow that. The six Shooter is a
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transcribed NBC Radio Network production in associationwith Review Productions. It is written by
Frank Burgs and is based on acharacter created by him. Mister Stewart may
currently be seen in the Universal InternationalPicture The Glen Miller's Story. Others in
the cast were Lillian Baiath, BillJohnstone, Lou Merrill, and Harry Killer
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Bartel. Special music for this programwas by Basil Adlam, and the entire
production is under the direction of JackJohnstone. All characters and incidents were fictitious.
Any resemblance to actual characters or incidentsis purely coincidental. Oh yes,
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Shooter original Arne is Me six,nineteen fifty four and the title is an
A Northquest. Hope you enjoying again. Thanks for listening. In a moment
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angular and long legged. His skinis sun dyed brown. The gun in
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People call them bull the six Shooter. The NBC Radio Network presents James Stewart
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as the six Shooter, the transcribedseries of radio dramas based on the life
of Brit Punson, the Texas plainsmanwho wandered through the Western territories, leaving
behind a trail of still remembered legends. It was Friday morning when I got
(02:07):
the smoke clause in my first triptown about three months Dad Foster needed a
little extra money for feed, sohe asked me to drive about a dozen
of his heifers and sell him onside of his auction while I turned the
cattle over to Brad McClane, hewas the auctionaire. And then things about
noontime, I wandered into wenday NightsCafe, Wendy's Foods Real good to his
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cornbeaten cabbage, boiled potatoes, ricepudding for dessert, real tasty. There
was only one drawback to eating there, Wendy and then Edward. He's Marshall
Albred. But I guess you knewthat, didn't you. Well, as
a matter of fact, I didn't. Oh sure, sure he was elated.
Lasterday, one hundred and two voteswas cast. One hundred and two.
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Well, that's the biggest election we'veever had in this town, the
biggest in this part of the state, floord. I know, yes,
well, unless you count fort Lyonsover there. They eat very particular who
they let vote. Why. Ihear tell it was a drummer passing through
the town last election day and theyjust drug him right off to the pools.
Don't sorry, Yeah, I'll justbet you if there was to be
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an honest census, we'd show upwith a good twenty more people in fort
Lyons, very share, very shallWow, I sure wasn't fine, Little
Willy wonder, where do you thinkyou're going to bridge? You ain't let
me tell you about Marshall Burke findingSeth Quincy's body. Huh, Well,
what did you think I was leadingup to? Well? I then exactly
now, yeah, but we couldgo last Monday, that's when it happened.
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Oh and the reason I remember soplain is wrong. About ten o'clock
in the morning, it started tothunder, and I said to Missus Coombs.
I run into a coming down mainstreet. I said, Missus Coombs
and said, don't let that thunderfool you. It ain't gonna rain the
first week in September. No,sir, I lived around here for seventeen
years, and it ain't never rainedafter the twenty fifth August, That's what
I said. Yeah, well,now what about nonse Quincy? What I
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was coming to that, brit Can'tyou give a body a minute? Oh
sure? Oh yes, Well hewas lying on the floor of his party
when Marshall Burt come in and theysee the police. Looked like he put
up quite a fight too. Brokenfurniture and glass where all over the place
and slugging his chance. That's whatkilled him. A shooting must have been
around eleven o'clock that morning's yeah,at leastwise that's when missus Henderson said she
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heard what sounded like a shot.You know that Henderson's Britt lived right over
them the road there, just downthe road a bit from Seth the Quincy's
ranch. Yeah, clied Henderson.He's that short red haired fellow who marries
Haarah Watkins. Ye, I said, I know him, Wenday. There's
no need to take my head off. I'm just trying to give you the
fact. I'm sorry, you goahead, give me the fact. Well,
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I see where was I? Yes, the trouble somebody interrupts you and
you'll lose your whole frame of thorder. Oh yeah, yeah about Seth Quincy.
Well, I guess that's order isto tell a cry. It was
last Monday, the trial. Sure, Pete Calgrin, the fellow that killed
him. Pete Kelgrin, what's thematter with you, britt Ain't you listening
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to me? Why? Well?You know you kind of neglected to mention
Pete Calgrin before Wenday, You knowI did? Yes, Oh well,
there wasn't any doubt but that hewas guilty. When Marshall Burke arrested him.
Kilgrin still had the four hundred dollarsin his pocket. Four hundred dollars
the money he stole from Seth.Oh, that's funny. Pete Calgrin never
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struck me as a type of Iguess you just never can tell about people,
can you. Well, I didn'tknow you was a friend of Pete's
bread. Well, we weren't exactlyfriends, but we've met up a couple
of times. He always seemed likea nice young follow me or he even
admitted Robin Saith. Of course,he says that when he come in,
Seth was already dead and the strongbox was just sitting right there, really
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inviting me. He's you must thinkwe're a bunch of Ignoramas is expecting us
to believe it. You're like that, Well, I suppose it could be
true. You didn't see it thatway. Hanging his schedule for next Monday,
but hanging well, right, andI owe your quarter? Huh?
And I just a minute, huh, get you a change? Well,
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I'll be dog gone. She's stillthere, that girl in front of the
depot. I've been standing there sincenine am this morning. Come in on
the express from Fort Lyon. Oh, I guess she's waiting for somebody to
meet her. I ain't heard ofnobody expecting visitors, and I usually get
window a thing like that, Iimagine you do. Yeah, well,
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here's your change. But thanks alot, no mention. Huh. I'll
be saying you're going to be intown for a while, ain't you.
No, No, I'm having backto fosh Rash tomorrow. Oh that's a
shame, you'll miss the hanging mWell, I reckon I can do with
thar song. I couldn't help noticethe girl waiting on the station platform.
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He's young, not moreing plenty orso pretty too. The straw colored hair
that was sort of fixed up inbraids, across the top of her head.
Real pretty, and it sure lookedlike she intended to stay around Smoke
Falls for a spell at least whyshe had plenty of lugg each weather,
two great big canvas suitcases and awicker basket packed all the flown. I
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started to cross over toward her,and she gave him turn. She was
frowning, kind of anxious, likeshe seemed to be studying me, as
if she was trying to make upher mind about something. Excuse me for
bothering your mess, but is thereanything I can do for you? You
come to meet you mister er Ohno, oh yeah, yeah, I
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seen you could not be him.He's shorter, failure, he's semi pictures.
He's definitely looking man. Are youthen you were waiting for somebody?
Sure? Sure? Well maybe ifyou told me who it is, I
maybe I'd be able to find afire. He did man, it come
to marry Oh say you write laterover to a year now. He have
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family in the same part of Swedenwhere I live. A b Swedish mystery.
Yes, yes, I sort offigured you might be. Then he
sent me money. He come toAmerica. I think he must be a
rich feller, send me so muchmoney two hundred dollars. Mm, yeah,
that's good. Some money or heturned me saved my sister in Wisconsin,
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tell you makes some more. Theysee there's six months over, but
they get tired of waiting. Istill have fifty dollars left, so I
take train a west. Oh well, maybe he didn't know you were getting
into day. Maybe that's why he'snot here yet. They write him later
from Wisconsin. My sister help mehim. That's a good at English language.
Oh you're done, all right,done? Fine, he must be
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busy working, that is by hislead. Okay, come ahead, and
it worry. Wow. What doyou say, mister? You're a friend
of his? Well, I don'tknow. I think you didn't tell me
his name. Oh I'm a veryfoolish person, and it used my brains.
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Edi is a Peter Peter. Yeah, Peter Calvin. You had heard
of him? Why? Yeah,yeah, I've heard of him. You
did not see him anywhere today?No? No, I haven't seen him.
But thank you used the same youngmister. I didn't tell you my
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name either. It's pons It butpons I'm very pleased to meet you,
mister pans Anna NuRD Oh how doyou do, Anna? Why you look
at me like that? Mister?Well, something is the mat. Yeah,
I'm afraid there is Peter. Heis not sick. No, no
than that. You said you'd cometo America to marry Pete. Yeah,
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but you don't know him very well? Do you? Over two years?
We write later? Oh? Ohyes, but I mean can you drink?
I candid love a man I nevermeet. No, no, not
necessarily. No. Peter used thesame as if you meet a hundred times.
They tell each other everything in letters. Maybe so, but yeah,
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I see I feel like it didyou thing? Oh you tell yourself.
I only marry Peter because you sendme so much money, because he is
such a rich fan. No,no, no, of course not.
I tell you truth, mister,and marry him because I love him.
I never see him, but Ilove him. There's no other reason.
Uh huh, yeah of course anuh so I why don't come over to
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the cafe and have a cup ofcoffee. It's very kind of you,
but it must be him and Peterson. Well, I'm afraid Peter isn't coming.
I didn't understand. No, I'mawful sorry that tell you about this
but well he's in jail, Jane. Yeah, you mean police raised him.
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Well, it was the Marshal andwas about the same thing. What
did Peter do? Well? Ohsure, sure, and no he's scared
to meet me, so he hastoo much to drink. He Oh no,
it's it's a lot more serious thanthat, damn mister. Well,
folks say that he killed a manlast week. He killed the man.
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Sure looks that way. No,it couldn't not be. He's fine,
good Fellah. That's why I guessyou're bound to think that, Anna,
But they make big mistake. Ikilled him, so they admit Peter go
where is Jane? No, no, no, I wouldn't do mister.
Where is je Well, it's justaround the corner there, But I don't
think here here. Let me giveyou a hand off. You can manage.
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He can carry suitcase ever confirmed,I'm playing this strong. No,
listen, Anna, I'm afraid themarsh mister you come to bedding you Oh
sure, sure, I'm in mud. Well, I didn't see. Work
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was up to me to give Annaall the details about the hanging Monday and
everything. She'd find out soon enough. Sure was a tough break though,
after coming all this distance and marrya man she'd never seen. Well.
Strolled around town for an hour orso, and then I headed over to
George Billings house, where I'd leftmy things and I was planning to spend
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the night with George and his wifeEllen. They offered me to use the
spare room. M nobody home.Well, I picked up the fire part
in the top courts up and Ifound the key onders. There's a note
from Ella too said for me gwinside make himself comfortable. There was a
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copy of the Smoke Falls Weekly.Does that on the hall table and skimmed
through it for a couple of minutes. The main article was about the Quincy
shooting. He killed him? Thetrial? Oh they did? May find
you here? He must, it'simportant. Yeah, come in, Anna,
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thank you very much. So won'tyou sit? Do he would rather
stand? You're too nervous if yousee it, mister Bunton, Yeah,
Pop, he's wrong with Marsha Burke. Oh not as far as I know.
He says Peter must be hanged.Yeah, I know it is not
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possible. They would not hang aman who is not guilty. Well,
Anna, maybe Peter is guilly.No, he is not the Marshall.
Let me talk to Peter. Iask him if he does this awful thing.
He tells me no, Well,Anna, it is no lie.
I can tell a man who lies. It is the truth. What Peter
says. Well, he is afine failure, better even than ah my
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sister Rowne Mayer should not expect toomuch. He would be disappointed. But
Peter, he is good and kindand handsome. Oh he's a nice looking
boy, all right, no doubtabout that. And he did not kill
any man. He could not bethe one. Well, he's admitted steal
and South Quincy's money. That iswhy he takes it so we can get
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married. They're very wrong to steal, and he must be punished for it.
Well, if he was well onthe steal deal is not to kill,
that is by the hanging. Yeah, that's right. Then you must
keep them from it. M Yeah. I tell Peter that we meet that
you are very nice to me.He says, you be a famous person
with the funny name, ma'am sickshooter. Oh yes, he says,
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you will prove he is not guilty. You will talk to Marshall for him.
Oh, well, I don't seewhat talking to Marshall Burke would do.
Please, mister parnsaid, I tellyou something now before I say,
I come to marry Peter because I'min love it him, because of letters,
what he writes, and maybe andit speak the truth. Maybe I
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used going to come to America.I think I did no other chance,
but now it is a truth andmeet him and they talk to him,
and I am in love. Ilove him very much. You must believe
me, mister Parsick. Sure,Anna, Sure, I believe you can
you will talk to Marshall. Yeah, well, all right, all right,
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I'll talk to her. You arelistening to The six Shooter starring Jane
Stewart as Britt puntsit the Texas cowpolk who's name has become legend throughout the
(16:26):
West now at two of the storyand a Nordquist. When I left down
at the hotel, I went overto seeing that Burke. His office was
in the front part of the jailwhere they we're keeping Pete. Kilgrin Nad
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had only been marshal for a fewmonths, but he'd had a couple of
years deputy experience, so he knewthe job and he was sort of a
man that usually made a good marshalor two. He's quiet, not looking
for trouble, but take care ofit when the time came. I sure
felt terrible, brit when she camein here and told me who she was
and what she wanted. Yeah,I let her talk to Childrin sigured it
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was at least I could do.This seemed to make things worse though he
convinced her that he was innocent andI was out to get him. Oh
well, no, nobody's gonna bleedthat. Ned that girl might believe it.
Yes, I wouldn't blame her ifshe did that. Children's a pretty
smooth tucker. Yeah, ned yea. I that there couldn't be any doubt
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about it, could there? Imean, as I understand it, Pete
says that Quincy was already dead whenhe got there. I was sure he
did, and that he took themoney because so it was just a darned
tempt him. I don't stand thereason that somebody murders sat and then go
off without breaking into a strong box. Now, does it, brit No?
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No, I guess it doesn't.Besides, Sarah Henderson seemed Pete riding
away from says iusand not five minutesafter Sure to shut d You rest him
the same day, and I cameinto town right after I found Sessed body.
Sarah had send for me. Shehad a feeling something was wrong.
Calvin was at Bud Winkler's place,That's where found him. He still have
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a gun on him. No,he claimed he didn't known the forty five.
That's what the slugg and says.Chess was forty five. We see.
Of course Pete had plenty of timeto get rid of the gun,
and there are plenty places between CessRanch and town where he could have ditched
it. Wow, that's true enough. Anybody ever remember seeing Pete with a
forty five? Nothing I knew ofNo, Wait a minute, but you
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ain't taking pete side in this thing, right, Well, I'm not taking
anybody's side, and Nat, I'mjust curious. That's all. This was
a cold blooded killing. You're goingout to Sess Place, You'll see.
He was an old man, buthe's sure put up a darn good fight
for his life, and from thelooks of things, he went on fighting
after he was shot. You know, I just might take you up on
that invitation there about going out toSess place. See you later. Oh,
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it was gotten on toward dusk whenI reached Seth Quincy's ranch. Who
whoa? I walked up the frontsteps and tried at the door. It
wasn't locked. Seth had lived alone. That looked like anybody then just straighten
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things up since the murder so there. Sure it had been a wheal of
a fight in the parlor up abroken chair and some stains on the sofa,
and pieces of a lamp that hadbeen smashed against the fireplace. Strong
box didn't seemed to be there.I figured they probably needed that for the
evidence. Well. I poked aroundfor about half an hour, and then
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I headed back to town. Themoon was starting to come up as we
hit a band in the trail andthe dog gunes. Thing happened. A
scar was usually as sure footage ofthe mountain goat, and not a bit
skitty she either. But when abat came winging out of some cotton woods,
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I darned your sail white out ofthe satellite. The sam Hill has
gone. Wall scar come on now? And that's when I saw it buried
under a pot of leaves and alittle gully. The first thing that cut
my eye was the moonlight glinting offa piece of metal. Easy, easy,
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scark easy because it could have beenalmost anything, a broken spur or
part of a farm tool, anything. But even before I pulled it out
from underneath the leaves and the dirt, I knew it was a gun.
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Yeah, who was there? It'smade Bret Ponson you the minute I think
you never came, mister parts.Could I get so, Gary? Well,
I'm sorry it took me so long. It doesn't matter now that you're
here. You talked to Marshall Burke. Yeah, yeah, I talked to
him. And you're telling Peter didnot kill this man. You're telling Peter
is not guilty, Nonna. Icouldn't tell him that. How do you
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see Peter is guilly. I foundthis gun gun he used to kill Seth
Quincy, was hidden in the galleyabout a mile from the farmhouse. It
didn't have begieve you. I gaveit to Marshall Burke. You can see
it for yourself. You want togo over there. Pete's initials right on
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the handle. Only one bullet hadbeen fired. It's the right gun.
There's no doubt. What goodn beAnna, I listen to me. The
only reason I'm telling you this iswell, after Monday, there won't be
anything you can do about Peter.It'll be better if you just forget him.
Heaven not forget you. Oh,it won't be easy, I know
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that. But as long as youknow he's guilty, as long as there
isn't any doubt in your mind,well, maybe it's for the best that
you found out before. Well,you try to tell me, lie,
Annah, this is the truth.You say. You will show me a
gun. You say it belongs toPeter well Es. Peter say, well,
of course he denies it to ah I guess there's nothing more I
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can do about it. You lieto me, you and Marshall. You
try to make me think that whenI love it the criminal. Do not
understand what country they talk about?American? They say, is this country
in the world? But this islied too, very justice, freish freedom.
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They hang a man for he doesnot do no an It's a terrible,
terrible country. Maybe shall never comehere, Maybe shall never leave me
home. They have no friend,no husband, may be alone in country
today. Hate. Oh, I'mI'm sorry. And if there's any way
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I can help you, if ifyou need some money, he runs no
here from American Wow. Oh goodnight, Anna. The light was still
on in the Marshall's office, soI stopped off, and I asked that
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if I could go and have alittle talk with Pete. He didn't seem
to think of doing much good,and to tell you the truth, I
didn't think so either, but Icouldn't see it do any harm. Try.
Pete was a tall, stringy man, about twenty five or so,
toeheaded with the yellow mustache, kindof a pointed chin. All right,
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Britta, leave here, you wantnot just give me? You? Nice
man? Sharing popular today, ain'tI? Britt? I guess you might
call it that, Pete. Well, but I thought maybe by now you'd
feel like coming out with the truth. Told you the truth before. I've
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never seen that gun in my wholelife. I ain't the only man with
those initials. M I Z.What's the difference if I'm gonna be hung
anyway? Well, the difference is, Anna, Anna. She believes you,
Pete. She believes you're innocent,and as long as you go on
saying so, she's going to keepon believing it even after. It's kind
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of nice to have somebody believe inyour brit nobody else does. Now,
Pete, you weren't railroad, andyou had a fair judge and a fair
trial. But Anna doesn't realize that. She's young, she's upset, and
she's in a strange country. Shewanted to come here pretty bad. I
had a lot of dreams about thiscountry and knowledge I don't those dreams returning
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sour. It's a good thing shewoke up. Well, I just don't
happen to agree with you on that. I think this is a pretty good
place to live. But Anna won'tfind that out, not if she goes
on feeling this way. Well,what do you expect me to do?
Confess to murdering seth Quincy just sosAnna can appreciate the good old USA?
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You ask me, this country ain'tso hot anyway. Well, there are
a lot of folks who put uppretty good argument about that. Your own
father, you're just wasting your breath. Yeah, yeah, I guess any
man who kills sequency and cold bloodthe way it wasn't cold blood. I
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didn't even you want, Pete,all right, But I ain't telling you
this because of I don't even knowwhy I'm telling you. I needed money,
Branna, so we could get married. I wanted to make a good
showing, like I told him theletters I wrote it. Everybody said Seth
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had plenty of cash, that hewouldn't put none of it in the bank
because he'd had a fight with misterPutnam and he kept it all in that
strong boxing. I thought he'd goneto town. I never figured he'd come
back and catch me. While Iwas robbing him. I tried to hold
him off with my gun, buthe just kept coming. I had the
fire even then. He didn't stop, not until Well, Pete, what
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we want now? I want youto tell this to Anna. You can
tell her. I'm afraid that wouldn'tdo any good. He's real pretty anchie.
I never figured on her being surprity. She was surprised. Yeah,
I've been writing her for the lasttwo years. It's pause the idea he
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knew her ken back in Sweden.Wouldn't any girl around here that, at
least Wade Night I was interested in. Huh, Well, Pete, I'll
tell her, but it wasn't coldblood bread, not the way you think.
Yeah, Na, nad, I'mall done. Air Wow. Pete
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finally ex lame things to Anna,and I guess she saw what had happened
in kind of a different light.Mane. Anyway, she stayed on and
smoked falls And last time I wasthrough there, she was working over in
Wendy Night's cafe. She changed somethingtoo, was she wore her hair where
she dressed. But she was stilljust pretty the picture of that Georgia.
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And you know something Wendy had changed. He wasn't talking so much. A
folk said that that was Anne's doing, that she'd asked him to simmer down.
A back was her. If shewas able to get Wendy to stop
talking, even for a couple ofminutes, if she had that much influence
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on him, well, you neverknow that. The six Shooter is a
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